ʎqɐqɹǝʞɐɥs Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=308774 I am sending over a crate of karma as its in short supply over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dames Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Gonna take a bit more than Karma . Dames Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 It's hard not to laugh. If you turn to paganism that's all you deserve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waiting Patiently Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Shaker, save some karma for ladyluck off Squealing Pig Shes desperate for some My names Emily Howard and I'm a Property Guru. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ʎqɐqɹǝʞɐɥs Posted June 16, 2005 Author Share Posted June 16, 2005 I like this bit, its a bit like an awakening for the poor dears: One says... Originally Posted by Don Hard luck. I read this week that more than one in three 'sold houses' - ie 'offer accepted' - are not going through to completion currently. You are not alone. The other replies (with scarey hair raising smilie)... Don, did you have to write that. There are loads of us on here under offer. And now we are are Bloody hell is that really true, where did you read it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest consa Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 OK, I cant resist helping myself, cheers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refusnik Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 It amazes me how genuinely angry and agressive those people get when they fail to flog their overprised houses to those who woke up to reality in the process. How sentimental those "...we cannot aford to drop below xxx...", "... we will lose money if we do...", "we need to sell"! Nobody needs to buy, guys. Tough luck! And this karmaeing each other is a karma pyramid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grime- skint wouldbe ftb Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Did they give a reason? Survey ok? or just pig ignorant people Surely only the pig ignorant would buy at the height of a bubble? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ʎqɐqɹǝʞɐɥs Posted June 16, 2005 Author Share Posted June 16, 2005 Surely only the pig ignorant would buy at the height of a bubble? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nah! The buyers were just "b******s" apparently! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushroom Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Now now, you naughty HPC guerrillas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickyboy Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Post on there by ROBnCAZ: We can sympathise completely here!Bought this house 4 years ago, put on market approx 1 year ago at DOUBLE what we paid for it....have had 2 viewers in 1 year! Have now dropped the price by nearly £100K.... 1 was a developer wanting to bulldoze the place and build 5 houses!! The other didn't have a clue what they were looking for so was just speculatively looking at virtually every house in the village! No sign of a buyer on the horizon soon.............. Are they taking the proverbial? They said it themselves - what makes them think its worth double what they paid for it? I would tell them myself but I can't be doing with registering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehead Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Well, having been on singing pig I thought it was STRs & FTBs who were the whingers. That trip to expat sdisabused me of that notion. Must make a mental note to post a link to expats next time "whinging" comes up on sp. On expats there were several references to how "crap" the system of selling / buying houses is here. They seem to think that removing back-out options much sooner into the process would help them sell. Some, when refering to viewers as "timewasters", give the impression that they would prefer prospective buyers complete even before viewing. They seem to think this would help them. I didn't have the will to tell them the upshot of such a system would not be zero timewasters but zero viewings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Axiomatic Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=308774I am sending over a crate of karma as its in short supply over there. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Today they the Expat Forum are discussing The Economist articles. One or two sensible posts but a lot of rubbish also. British Expats Forum Take this gem from Kirstie&Al I'm not sure I would call a 1.25% rise in interest rates modest, especially when compared to something like 4%.One thing a lot of these articles fail to analyse is the stabilising effect of fixed rate mortgages. These were very rare in the UK at the time of the 89/90 crash; they are much more common now. Maybe all that karma is clouding their minds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest magnoliawalls Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 ust make a mental note to post a link to expats next time "whinging" comes up on sp.On expats there were several references to how "crap" the system of selling / buying houses is here. They seem to think that removing back-out options much sooner into the process would help them sell. Some, when refering to viewers as "timewasters", give the impression that they would prefer prospective buyers complete even before viewing. They seem to think this would help them. I didn't have the will to tell them the upshot of such a system would not be zero timewasters but zero viewings... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe some of them are comparing it to auction based systems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
right_freds_dead Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 its not all bad news. what about the potential buyer who quit the deal ? he'll save a packet over the next 6 months as prices continue to fall. someones loss is often someone elses gain. ooh, cant go to oz ? big AHHHHH !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTB Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=308774I am sending over a crate of karma as its in short supply over there. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hope you find someone else soon. This house selling lark is a pain in the neck. Crap system. Yeah, it's the system that's crap. Nothing to do with the pricing of course. Can I have some karma please, I tried selling my cheese sandwich for £14 earlier on and the buyer pulled out. I really need to sell it too, I've got my eye on a platter in an Australian sandwich shop, I paid 99p for the cheese sandwich but I feel it's my right to swap it for the platter in Oz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lampkin Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 (edited) God damn that singing pig forum is bad. What is their problem. How often do you get people on this forum who come on and in a reasonable manner saysomething along the lines of: a house price crash is never going to happen why do you think it will? How do you usually respond to that? would such a person get the same barrage of bull they get on the singing pig forum. "hur hur missed boater, nervous fsb" (genius!). The narrow mindedness of these people who own a home is sickening! Anyhow it can hardly be seen as a market crash, more of a bring back down to earth event. edit: i was going to ask how often there is positive economic discussion on this forum then i realised, its all positive! Edited June 17, 2005 by sllabres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theChuz Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Im really hungry i wish i had a cheese sandwich, my parents have just given me £20 to spend on some food to keep me going this week but i really want a cheese snadwich now. If only i could find one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unexpected Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 God damn that singing pig forum is bad. What is their problem. How often do you get people on this forum who come on and in a reasonable manner saysomething along the lines of: a house price crash is never going to happen why do you think it will? How do you usually respond to that? would such a person get the same barrage of bull they get on the singing pig forum. "hur hur missed boater, nervous fsb" (genius!). The narrow mindedness of these people who own a home is sickening! Anyhow it can hardly be seen as a market crash, more of a bring back down to earth event. edit: i was going to ask how often there is positive economic discussion on this forum then i realised, its all positive! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> PG and LL They really are a sad pair. Totally beyond help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unexpected Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 I liked this guys reply: I don't think buyers are normally changing their minds due to whimsy etc.Many people - who bother to think about this huge investment in a house, tying yourself to a mortgage for twenty-odd years and borrowing large amounts of money; or alternatively, tying up a huge amount of your family wealth - are correctly concerned by the way that house prices have risen far faster and higher than in the past vs average incomes. Far higher and faster rises in the past have ALWAYS meant big price falls soon follow and IMHO this time will be no different. So buyers are worried about the commitment, worried about the effect that losing (say) 10% of £200K in a year will have on their lives, 20% in 2 years, who knows? So they think again, realise that they can manage OK where they are until the mkt stabilises, or seize on the survey etc to pull out or plead financing problems or try a bit of gazundering to make it financially safer for themselves (and because they can, in a buyers' mkt). Houses aren't sold until the money's in the bank. __________________ Cheers - Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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